| Soccer City ready 01/03/2010 |
Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium, venue for the opening and closing games of the 2010 World Cup, was declared ready by the sport’s international governing body. FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke described the pitch as ’immaculate’ and added that it was time that people stop doubting the ability of South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup, notes a China.org report. ’As everyone can see the stadium is complete and I have no doubt every team that plays in this venue will find it awesome.’
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Full China.org report
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| Daikin Air Conditioners for 2010 stadia 25/02/2010 |
Daikin Air Conditioning received orders for and has delivered a total of 170 water-cooled VRV air conditioners to the new Green Point Stadium, and the newly-constructed Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium (Port Elizabeth). Both stadiums will play host to the 2010 World Cup, notes a CBN report. The Green Point Stadium is the first intelligent stadium in South Africa and, as the name suggests, was built to be environmentally conscious.
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Full CBN report
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| PE faces water ’crisis’ ahead of WC kick-off 21/02/2010 |
The shortage of clean drinking water in Nelson Mandela Bay is threatening to adversely affect the 2010 World Cup in the region. Sunday World reports that the Nelson Mandela metropolitan municipality has admitted it could run out of water before the 2010 World Cup, saying it is preparing a ’crisis plan’ to address the problem. The plan is to be finalised in March, when details will be revealed. This admission comes as the critical water shortage worsens by the day, with the municipality being blamed for failing to implement restrictions agreed on seven months ago.
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Full Sunday World report
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| 2010 stadia ready 17/02/2010 |
With just over 100 days left before the start of the 2010 World Cup, the 10 host stadiums are gearing up for the global event, notes a report on the iafrica.com site. LOC CE Danny Jordaan, says there was never any doubt that the stadiums would be ready. ’We always knew that our stadiums would be ready and not only that, we knew that they would be among the best the world has seen’, said Jordaan. ’Soccer City is a marvel of design and construction and everyone who has visited this stadium has said it is among the best in the World,’ he added.
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Full iafrica.com report
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| 15 training stadiums confirmed 17/02/2010 |
A total of 15 stadiums, including one private college, have been confirmed as official training venues for the 2010 World Cup. The Sowetan reports that this was after the facilities, which have all been refurbished to meet FIFA requirements, were inspected by representatives of the LOC. Joburg tops the list with four facilities. The venues are: Dobsonville Stadium, Rand Stadium, the University of Johannesburg Stadium and St Stithians College in Sandton.
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Full report in The Sowetan
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| Bay Stadium tested ahead of WC 14/02/2010 |
The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium is set to host a soccer treat when Soweto giants Orlando Pirates clash with Botswana’s Gaborone United in a Confederation of African Football Champions League encounter on Sunday, February 28.The Buccaneers agreed to meet Gaborone after being approached by the host city to play at the 40000-seater stadium, notes a Sunday World report. The match is being played as part of the venue readiness test in the build-up to the 2010 World Cup.
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Full Sunday World report
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| New 2010 stadium in Pietermaritzburg 08/02/2010 |
KwaZulu-Natal has unveiled another multi-million rand stadium to show its readiness for the 2010 World Cup, notes a report in The Sowetan. It was the Harry Gwala Stadium in the capital city Pietermaritzburg. The newly built state-of-the- art facility has been constructed to the tune of R85 million from the department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs, with contributions from the Umgungundlovu district and Umsunduzi local municipalities.
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Full report in The Sowetan
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| Beautiful stadium ... pity about the traffic - 08/02/2010 |
Stadium operator Sail/Stade de France and the City of Cape Town say they will go back to the drawing board to devise a comprehensive traffic management plan for the third World Cup test event next month. This comes after traffic ground to a halt around the Cape Town Stadium precinct on Saturday, causing thousands of spectators to miss the curtain-raiser match between the SA Legends and the International 10s. According to a report on the IOL site, motorists with tickets for VIP parking waited up to an hour to get into the main parkade because sniffer dogs checked every vehicle entering the stadium precinct for explosives and narcotics.
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Full report on the IOL site
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| KwaMsame gets its own 2010 stadium - 06/02/2010 |
Gearing up for the 2010 World Cup, KwaMsame now has its own 1 000-seater stadium. The stadium is complete with an open air big-screen for watching the World Cup games. According to a Zululand Observer report, the bright and shiny new stadium reportedly cost about R14 million to erect and also boasts pavilion seating, a VIP area and underground change rooms.
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Full Zululand Observer report
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| SA infrastructure ready for 2010 - 06/02/2010 |
South Africa would host a memorable, incident free 2010 World Cup with all major infrastructure for the event having been completed on time, Said Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile. Speaking following the monthly meeting of the 2010 Interministerial Committee (IMC) Stofile told journalists that all the stadiums for the event had been completed and that it was ’all systems go’. With only a few months to go until the start of the international sporting event on June 11, the Minister said that the power generators to be installed at each stadium, as part of FIFA’s demand for independent back-up power supply at the facilities, had been procured.
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Full Engineering News report
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| Another WC venue gets the green light 01/02/2010 |
After passing its second and final readiness test, the Peter Mokaba Sports Complex is now ready to host international matches and a capacity crowd after two major events where staged here without tribulations. The Sowetan reports that Ndavhe Ramakuela, director of 2010 Polokwane, said they were satisfied with the stadium and that the facility was now ready for a 45 000 full capacity crowd. ’We used these two events to test the stadium’s readiness for major games and it passed the test nicely. We have also ensured that all safety and security measures are in place,’ said Ramakuela.
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Full report in The Sowetan
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| SAFA president lauds 2010 stadia 25/01/2010 |
SAFA president Kirsten Nematandani has congratulated Polokwane and Cape Town for delivering on their promise of building world-class stadiums for the 2010 World Cup. The Sowetan reports that his comments came after successful matches were staged at the Peter Mokaba Sports Complex and Cape Town Stadium, marking the official opening of the venues. ’The fact that the two facilities passed the first readiness test without problems is a sign that all our facilities will be ready for use. With the exception of Soccer City and Mbombela Stadium, we have tested all the facilities . The technical committee of the LOC is working with municipalities to improve on the challenges raised during the games,’ said Nematandani.
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Full report in The Sowetan
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| Test-drive of new stadium gets thumbs up 23/01/2010 |
The old Peter Mokaba stadium has just one grandstand and a cabbage patch for a field. So when it was decided to hold World Cup matches in Polokwane, there were two options - renovate the old Limpopo venue or build a new arena from scratch. It was decided to go for a new venue which was spot on. It still needs some touch-ups, but nothing major. If there is any criticism it is that not all areas have yet been painted. The purpose of Saturday’s inaugural four-club tournament - featuring Kaizer Chiefs, SuperSport United, Bidvest Wits and Denmark’s Brondby - was to test the readiness of the Peter Mokaba stadium regarding security, transport to and from the venue, and the condition of the field.
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Full Sunday Times report
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| Cape’s Diva gets rousing welcome 23/01/2010 |
Standing on the parapet looking south, the remnants of the old Green Point Stadium are still clearly visible. Whether they have been left standing so that visitors to the new Cape Town Stadium can admire the difference between past and future is unclear, but certainly the contrast is stark. Few of the 20 000 visitors yesterday would have noticed the dilapidated stand that used to form part of the old stadium, because hovering over it like an enormous spacecraft is Cape Town’s World Cup venue. A first look inside the R4.5-billion structure did not disappoint. Dubbed ’the diva of Cape Town’ by architects for its supposed ability to reflect the changing moods of the city in varying weather conditions, the design is as functional as it is easy on the eye.
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Full Sunday Times report
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| Two more stadia ready to open 21/01/2010 |
Two more of South Africa’s 2010 World Cup stadiums will open to the public this weekend, with matches planned in Cape Town and Polokwane. The Witness reports that the opening of the 70 000-seater Cape Town Stadium and 45 000-seater Peter Mokaba Stadium means that just two more venues have to be completed for pre-tournament testing before the World Cup. These are Johannesburg’s Soccer City, which will host the tournament’s opening match on June 11 and the final a month later, and Nelspruit’s Mbombela Stadium. Officials are hoping Soccer City will open its doors next month. There are plans to switch the traditional Soweto Derby to the venue on February 20.
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Full report in The Witness
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| Bungee swing for Durban stadium 19/01/2010 |
The Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban will feature another attraction - in addition to the arch and funicular - when a bungee swing is unveiled at the facility soon. According to a report on the IoL site, the swing will be suspended from the top of the arch and people will be able to swing from the fourth level on one side of the stadium across to the other. The city’s municipal manager, Michael Sutcliffe, said the swing was currently being tested and would ’open for business’ within a week. ’The municipality hasn’t paid a cent for the bungee swing, but it is another magnificent attraction for the stadium. We will get a portion of the income, as per our agreement with the operator,’ he said.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| Jitters subside over stadiums - 12/01/2010 |
SAs 10 stadiums are ready to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup now the fans need to come to the party, say the organisers. And no expense is being spared to make sure that Africas first World Cup will be a success. The national government will have contributed R11,7bn to the construction of five new stadiums, and the upgrade of five existing stadiums, says Treasury spokeswoman Thoraya Pandy.
The previous finance minister, Trevor Manuel , said in 2007 that R8,4bn had been set aside for stadiums.
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Full Business Day report
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| A busy start for PE venue - 12/01/2010 |
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium is again set for another sporting extravaganza with two major events scheduled to take place at the newly built 2010 World Cup stadium. Two teams are lined up to kickstart the new year in what sporting fans say will be a bonanza. The venue has already received its fair share of success in hosting both national and international sporting events. Bay United, which is currently plying its trade in the lower National First Division, will clash with South Korea on Thursday morning.
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Full Sunday World report
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| Makeover for Nelspruit pitch 06/01/2010 |
The pitch at the 46 000-seater Mbombela Stadium is being replaced after contractors stripped the original and dug up the clay surface underneath to allow proper drainage. The changes were ordered after an inspection by Fifa in November. This was after a rainy spell had left the new ground waterlogged. The installation of a new pitch would be completed this week, said the city’s World Cup co-ordinator, Differ Mogale. Plans to open the stadium with a friendly between Ghana and Bosnia-Herzegovina on March 3 would go ahead, Mogale added.
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Full report on the IOL site
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| New stadium a boost for Green Point 31/12/09 |
Now that the new Green Point stadium is all-but complete and lit up with a magical soft glow at night almost all the criticism and the dread that it would downgrade the precinct have melted away. So says Lanice Steward, MD of Anne Porter Knight Frank (APKF), who adds that it is ’impossible not to be impressed’. ’When the lights come on after dark, one has the impression that a benign spaceship has landed here. It is just far enough away not to impinge on the attractive cosmopolitan cafι district on Somerset Road (which has proliferated over the last year), but close enough to give a feeling that something very exciting, very modern and almost beyond our understanding has happened here.’
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Full Property24 report
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| Thieves hit Green Point Stadium 17/12/2009 |
The theft of key aluminium fittings at the Cape Town Stadium resulted in the structure being damaged by the strong winds that battered Cape Town at the weekend. The Cape Argus reports that the stadium, which was handed over to the City of Cape Town late last week, is all but complete - pending attendance to the new owners’ ’snag list’, which will be dealt with by the contractors. The damage happened at the weekend, when winds of up to 170km/h lashed the city - and the City Bowl and Foreshore in particular. The city’s 2010 spokesman, Pieter Cronje, said special ’reinforced curtains’ - woven mesh made of fibreglass with strengthening Teflon coatings - had been torn in the high wind. These sheets are wrapped around the steel frames on the outside of the stadium, letting natural light through.
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Full Cape Argus report
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| Green Point stadium under the spotlight 09/12/2009 |
Now that the new Green Point stadium is all-but complete - and lit up with a magical soft glow at night - almost all the criticism and the dread that it would downgrade the precinct have melted away, say Meryl Kreuger and Velma Knight, Anne Porter Knight Frank’s agents for Sea Point and Green Point. ’It is impossible not to be impressed,’ said Knight. ’When the lights come on after dark, one has the impression that a benign spaceship has landed here. It is just far enough away not to impinge on the attractive cosmopolitan cafι district on Somerset Road (which has proliferated over the last year), but close enough to give a feeling that something very exciting, very modern and almost beyond our understanding has happened here.’ According to a report on the iafrica.com site, Kreuger added that almost as impressive as the building itself have been the City Council’s upgrading of the surrounding landscapes and, more particularly, the golf course.
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Full report on the iafrica.com site
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| Mbombela stadium’s soil blunder - 08/12/2009 |
Mpumalanga ’s 2010 World Cup Stadium, Mbombela, had its entire lawn removed after authorities realised it was laid on wrong soil. But authorities are tight-lipped as to how much more this has cost the province. The Sowetan reports that provincial 2010 spokesperson Ronny Moyo said that though the clay soil which was used was not ’that bad’, his office could not run a risk of having the stadium flooded in the event that it rained during the World Cup. He said about 25 percent of the turf supplied had been grown in clay and this had disturbed the drainage. This has resulted in the much anticipated match between Orlando Pirates and Mpumalanga Black Aces, which was to be used to test the stadium before the scheduled handover to FIFA next May, being cancelled.
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Full report in The Sowetan
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| Bad news for Durban stadium 05/12/2009 |
There’s bad news for Durban’s plans to use the new Moses Mabhida Stadium as a major concert venue to help pay for the R3.1 billion structure, notes a report on the IoL site. Feedback from the public and promoters is that the unpredictable weather makes the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Conference Centre the preferred venue. This week Big Concerts decided to move the first major concert scheduled for the new stadium to the ICC. Singer Elton John and percussionist Ray Cooper were scheduled to perform at the venue next year, but John Langford, Big Concerts’ chief operating officer, said the change was made ’in response to concerns expressed by the Durban public regarding the unpredictable weather conditions in March’.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| 2010 showcases SA’s technical acumen 01/12/2009 |
SA’s newly-built and revamped stadiums are ranked as some of the most sophisticated in the world, says local technology business Dimension Data. ’People used to use the German stadiums as a benchmark for international development; now people are coming to look at ours,’ says DiData’s GM for special projects in Africa and the Middle East, KC van Straaten. ITWeb reports that the company has been part of the development of technologies in six of the 11 stadiums that SA will have completed by the start of next year’s soccer spectacular. ’Some of which are among the most sophisticated in the world,’ he adds. According to Van Straaten, getting the engineers and technology specialists to work together in the development of the stadiums is a first for SA.
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Full ITWeb report
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| 2010 stadia almost ready 30/11/2009 |
Once a headache for the LOC, the 10 South African stadia for the 2010 World Cup are now pride and joy as they are set to be ready on time for the football extravaganza. Sports24 reports that stadia construction faced many challenges, including strikes in July when more than 70 000 workers asked for salary hikes, countrywide blackouts in January 2008 that crippled the economy, budget deficits and sometimes unpredictable weather. ’It has been a roller-coaster ride. Sometimes we were happy and most times saddened by the criticism and the pessimism but we always knew we would be ready on time,’ LOC spokesperson Rich Mkhondo said.
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Full Sports24 report
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| Stormers set to play at Green Point Stadium 26/11/2009 |
The Stormers will make their ’debut’ at the new Green Point stadium, to be used for the 2010 World Cup, when they play a pre-season game there in February. It has confirmed that the traditional friendly between the Stormers and provincial neighbours Boland will take place in Green Point on Saturday, February 6, notes a report on the iafrica.com site. The Boland Rugby Union, who play hosts to this fixture, have agreed to move the fixture from their home ground in Wellington to the new Cape Town Stadium in Green Point. It will be the first time since the mid 1980s that provincial rugby will be played in the Green Point stadium - as it was called, before it’s revamp for Soccer World Cup 2010 and being renamed the Cape Town Stadium.
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Full report on the iafrica.com site
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| Cape Town’s R1 stadium bungle 25/11/2009 |
The City of Cape Town says a lease agreement error, which could see its 2010 World Cup stadium being rented to operator Sail Stadefrance for R1 a year, is ’immaterial’. A bungle on the Cape Town Stadium lease agreement has reduced the annual base rental from R100 000 to R1. The error was repeated twice - in digits and words - in the lease agreement. But the city says the mistake is nothing to worry about, because the lease agreement obliges the operator to pay the greater amount of either the base rental of R1 or 30% of the operator’s profit before tax. The city’s 2010 project head, Mike Marsden, told the Cape Argus that the base rental would only come into play if the operator’s earnings before tax fell below R333 333.
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| A venue of beauty 25/11/2009 |
It’s ready. After 32 months, more than 200 000 tons of concrete and 10 000 tons of steel, Durban’s R3,1-billion Moses Mabhida Stadium is complete and ready to host the thousands of fans expected to descend on the city for the world football showpiece next year, notes a report on the IoL site. From its foundations, more than 45m underground, to the highest point of the 108m arch, which soars above a pitch planted with locally grown grass imported from the US, nothing has been overlooked to make sure Durban has one of the ’best football venues in the world’. And seats for the opening match on Sunday between AmaZulu and Maritzburg United are sold out. The next event will be a PSL match between Maritzburg United and Kaizer Chiefs on December 6.
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Full report on the IoL site
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| A defining moment for Durban 24/11/2009 |
The completion of the Moses Mabhida stadium was a defining moment for Durban, head of the strategic projects unit and 2010 programme Julie-May Ellingson said on Tuesday. ’This proves that world-class engineering can be achieved,’ she told a briefing. She said no unbudgeted money was spent on the construction, which cost just over R3bn, R1bn less than Cape Town’s Green Point stadium. According to a report on the News24 site, the 70 000-seater stadium took 32 months to build.
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Full report on the News24 site
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